This spaghetti carbonara recipe is such an easy and simple meal to cook when we are in a hurry during the week. I quite often have dinner ready in the evening by having prepared bits and pieces before Skint Mum gets in, or by cooking in the slow cooker earlier in the day. Not every evening is like this though as we can have nights of utter mayhem where we don't know how we'll fit everything in before bed time. Bring forward the spaghetti carbonara. With only a few ingredients, we can have dinner on the table in less than 15 minutes, and it works out lot cheaper than buying a jar of sauce.

I made this recipe to deal with a "green day" on Slimming World. If you use the pasta as free food, the gammon as a healthy B choice and the soup as a Healthy B choice, it is "syn" free! Fabulous. It works; I lost 4 stone.

Broaden your children's tea repertoire with this healthy version of a long-time favourite. Gammon steaks are quickly grilled, then topped with naturally sweet pineapple and glazed with mild mango chutney. Rice and mixed vegetables complete the meal, and a yummy orange sauce is drizzled over all.

Pears and sweet potatoes are delicious with gammon in this colourful casserole, and they make a relatively modest amount of meat seem more than enough. Serve with a mixture of lightly cooked broccoli and cauliflower and plenty of crusty French bread so you can enjoy every bit of the delectable sauce.